1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Where a U.S. District Court judge revoked a defendant’s supervised release and imposed a three-year sentence for violating its conditions, (1) the judge did not err in admitting hearsay evidence or in finding a violation had occurred and (2) the ...

Where a U.S. District Court judge found two defendants liable for commodity trading fraud, the defendants have presented no convincing argument for overturning the finding of liability for failing to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or with violating ...

Where a plaintiff former employee of Puerto Rico’s Vocational Rehabilitation Administration brought suit alleging discrimination based on her disability, age and politics, an order dismissing the complaint must be vacated as to an Americans with Disabilities Act claim. “[T]he judge ...

Where a corporation did not pay its payroll taxes, a U.S. District Court judge was warranted in holding two corporate executives personally liable. “The obligation of a corporate employer to pay payroll taxes is familiar. The Internal Revenue Code requires ...

Where a visa petition approval has been revoked, that decision was discretionary and not subject to judicial review. “This case raises a question of first impression in our circuit: whether 8 U.S.C. §1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), which precludes judicial review of the Attorney ...

Where a habeas corpus petitioner claims that testimony and evidence provided by an expert witness who relied on DNA analysis performed by a non-testifying witness violated his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation, a U.S. District Court judge properly denied his ...

Where a defendant pleaded guilty to one count of illegal possession of a machine gun, his sentence of 60 months’ imprisonment was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable. Affirmed. Procedural reasonableness “ … First, [defendant Miguel] Vázquez claims that the district ...

Where a judge (1) revoked a defendant’s supervised release on underlying convictions of being a felon in possession of a firearm and criminal contempt and (2) imposed a sentence of 30 months of imprisonment, the judge acted permissibly, as criminal ...

Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act has argued on appeal that Congress exceeded the scope of its Article I powers in enacting the MDLEA and that his convictions must therefore be reversed, ...

Where summary judgment was entered for the defendants in a civil rights suit, the judgment must be affirmed because the plaintiff waited too long to set out his theory that his rights under the First and Eighth Amendments had been ...